It sounds like at your age and stage of life you want to create more diversification to preserve wealth.

Instead of worrying about taxes at this early stage, it may be more productive focusing on finding the right deal, the right funding and the right contractors.

Consider hiring a professional photographer or even staging the home to make it stand out

Purchase price: $1,435,000 Cash invested: $3,010,600 Sale price: $8,400,000 We identified multiple lots around the light rail system in WA, where we felt that properties are going toincrease in value significantly, these lots were re-zoned from SFH to multi-family (MUR35mostly), we have developed, permitted and starting to build: 8849 Midvale Ave N, Seattle – Two combined lots, zoned for multifamily where we built 12 townhomes 23007 55th Ave W, Mountlake Terrace – 7 townhouses in a walking distance from thelight rail station, in planning stages with the city of Mountlake Terrace, WA

Public records will reveal if a home is in the pre-foreclosure stage.

The technology i progressing but not to a commercial stage. 

I'm in the beginning stages of planning an ADU build in Raleigh, NC.

My advisor suggested that at my stage of the game, 8 properties, it likely made more sense to keep the extra money available or in the business to use as emergency funds or to accumulate for another down payment.

I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND doing the copper in the basement NOW since you are in the demo stage. 

You don't get to pick them.The math should be fairly elementary.